Hey u/Morpheus11 have you ever given any thought to the role of bacteria in dental health? The dentist is always going on about how they are eating away at my teeth. That sound reasonable on the service, but why would bacteria eat health bone? Why don't they eat away my jaw or skull for example?
Bacteria are never attacking or harmful to us. Our body actually creates bacteria, just like it creates cells/tissue. We don't "catch" them from "out there". We're probably 10-years away from this becoming common knowledge however.
The idea that bacteria "cause dis-ease" is a HALF-TRUTH that will difficult to unwind, as so many other lies will be too.
It's true that when bacteria become active in our body, that we then "feel sick", and thus you could say it's the bacteria making us sick. That's the half that's true. But what's happening is the bacteria are generated by the body to either repair or restore tissue that has been altered by our psyche (or autonomic nervous system) to deal with a perceived negative life situation. Depending on the germ layer, the psyche adds tissue (tumors/cancers) in the case of the oldest endoderm (organs and glands) in order to improve its function, or removes tissue during the conflict to help widen or eventually strengthen tissue of the ectoderm. Both the enamel and dentin are ectodermal.
You are likely going in and out of what we call a "bite conflict", very primal and instinctual in nature. This falls into the "self-devaluation" category of conflicts. The analogy to the canine world works quite nicely. When a dog is unhappy about something, they bear their front teeth to show their displeasure. Thus, the conflict here is that you wish to show somebody your displeasure, like say your spouse, boss, co-worker, child, parent, etc., but societal rules dictate you not do this to maintain the peace. Your dental issues would be in your top/front teeth if this is the case.
The next level is if you feel like you want to "snap at" your foe, opponent, person causing you irritation to teach them to stop doing/saying/acting as they are. Again, what's stopping you from expressing yourself are our artificial cultural rules of behavior. On one hand, you may be much stronger and in a superior position to this person and society reprimands us for "picking on somebody weaker than you". On the other hand, you may also feel you are in the position of weakness and feel like you could lose something should you "snap back" at this person - say a boss or a spouse. This type of conflict expresses in the incisors region, the teeth where a dog would "snap at" its opponent, but not really harm it, but rather send a stern message.
The strongest conflict is with the molars, where you instinctively want to "crush" your opponent, "grind them up" once and for all so to speak, to put an end to their unsavory behavior toward you.
In all cases, what's happening is, when you hold back your instinct, whichever it is, you're fundamentally saying "I CAN'T bare, bite, snap, crush" my opponent because......such and such a reason.
Make sense so far?
Now, the key to understanding all of this is how your psyche responds. It only registers the "I CAN'T BITE" part of the equation. It doesn't understand our societal and cultural rules and norms. It's only concerned with your survival. And when it hears I CAN'T, it concludes that you've decided you can't because your, in this case, teeth are too weak.
You can apply this same logic to all muscles, bones, connective tissue, etc. and the zillions of afflictions that people have with them. This is, by far, the largest category of conflicts people suffer -> SELF-DEVALUATION.
If you're with me thus far, here's what happens next. The process employed by the psyche is basically identical to lifting weights to make your muscles stronger, or even breaking a bone. In both cases, when the muscles are deliberately torn apart, or the bone is accidentally broken, your psyche always responds by building the muscle or bone stronger so as to help you survive a similar experience in the future.
And this is what's happening with your teeth. Your psyche hears I CAN"T BITE, and goes to work with breaking down your dentin or enamel in order to build it back stronger so that you will feel like you can bite when it completes the process.
This self-devaluation category is the hardest for people to understand because you don't see the benefit of it until the whole conflict and healing process is completed.
So it's likely that you go in and out of your bite conflict, with whomever it is associated with. The bacteria enter the mix AFTER you have resolved your conflict and they go about building stronger dentin/enamel for you. If there are no bacteria but increasing pain and cavities, your bite conflict is active and not yet resolved.
The whole sugar, brushing, flossing story is complete nonsense. I brush maybe once a week, never floss, and eat probably 10x the amount of sugar anybody I know my age, and haven't been to a dentist in over 20 years - no cavities, no dental issues. I realize you won't likely come around to the no brushing/flossing idea any time soon. But I'd recommend you consider it in the short term if you're experiencing pain in your teeth. You're scrubbing away the bacteria that are trying to make your teeth stronger/better. After they pain goes away, you can resume your brushing routine.
The hardest part of course, is figuring out who your foe is, and if you can find a way to let them know your displeasure with this person without suffering a greater loss, like losing a job. Most people I've worked with that have bite conflicts have them with their boss or a co-worker. A few with their spouses.
A little creative thinking can help you come up with a reasonable strategy to work out your issue. Sometimes, just a brief moment of tempered brutal honesty is all it takes -> "Hey boss, I don't like the way you treat me under these circumstances....can we find a more amicable way to work this out"?
And yes, I do recall your saga with your employer and the jab back in 2021 that you so elegantly came out ahead on with your common law approach!
What's the net-net? There's no such thing as "bad bacteria". They're always working to benefit you. That some people die and become overwhelmed with pneumonia or sepsis is because they are already in a tremendously weakened state to begin with and can no longer handle the repair/restoration work being performed by the bacteria. Typically these are the more elderly and/or those with multiple co-morbidities. In these cases, a stiff round of anti-biotics can actually save the person in the short run, but they are left in a greatly weakened state forevermore, as the bacteria were not able to complete their restorative work, typically in the lungs.
Thanks for the quick reply buddy! It's only in reading you of late that I've had to consider the notion of the psyche affecting one's health. Of course the idea that your outlook affect how you feel has been around forever, probably with good reason. I'll check the link.
And as you alluded, my covid mandate battle certainly had me feeling powerless at many points, and at war with almost the entire office/company. I definitely wanted to bite someone.
What's the net-net? There's no such thing as "bad bacteria". They're always working to benefit you.
This is my thought too, but it's good to see it in black and white with regard to the category I'm thinking about. Thanks for your thoughts and pointers Morpheus.
Like Mike Stone's stuff. Worth reading.
Hey u/Morpheus11 have you ever given any thought to the role of bacteria in dental health? The dentist is always going on about how they are eating away at my teeth. That sound reasonable on the service, but why would bacteria eat health bone? Why don't they eat away my jaw or skull for example?
Nice to hear from you Corrbrick.
Bacteria are never attacking or harmful to us. Our body actually creates bacteria, just like it creates cells/tissue. We don't "catch" them from "out there". We're probably 10-years away from this becoming common knowledge however.
The idea that bacteria "cause dis-ease" is a HALF-TRUTH that will difficult to unwind, as so many other lies will be too.
It's true that when bacteria become active in our body, that we then "feel sick", and thus you could say it's the bacteria making us sick. That's the half that's true. But what's happening is the bacteria are generated by the body to either repair or restore tissue that has been altered by our psyche (or autonomic nervous system) to deal with a perceived negative life situation. Depending on the germ layer, the psyche adds tissue (tumors/cancers) in the case of the oldest endoderm (organs and glands) in order to improve its function, or removes tissue during the conflict to help widen or eventually strengthen tissue of the ectoderm. Both the enamel and dentin are ectodermal.
You are likely going in and out of what we call a "bite conflict", very primal and instinctual in nature. This falls into the "self-devaluation" category of conflicts. The analogy to the canine world works quite nicely. When a dog is unhappy about something, they bear their front teeth to show their displeasure. Thus, the conflict here is that you wish to show somebody your displeasure, like say your spouse, boss, co-worker, child, parent, etc., but societal rules dictate you not do this to maintain the peace. Your dental issues would be in your top/front teeth if this is the case.
The next level is if you feel like you want to "snap at" your foe, opponent, person causing you irritation to teach them to stop doing/saying/acting as they are. Again, what's stopping you from expressing yourself are our artificial cultural rules of behavior. On one hand, you may be much stronger and in a superior position to this person and society reprimands us for "picking on somebody weaker than you". On the other hand, you may also feel you are in the position of weakness and feel like you could lose something should you "snap back" at this person - say a boss or a spouse. This type of conflict expresses in the incisors region, the teeth where a dog would "snap at" its opponent, but not really harm it, but rather send a stern message.
The strongest conflict is with the molars, where you instinctively want to "crush" your opponent, "grind them up" once and for all so to speak, to put an end to their unsavory behavior toward you.
In all cases, what's happening is, when you hold back your instinct, whichever it is, you're fundamentally saying "I CAN'T bare, bite, snap, crush" my opponent because......such and such a reason.
Make sense so far?
Now, the key to understanding all of this is how your psyche responds. It only registers the "I CAN'T BITE" part of the equation. It doesn't understand our societal and cultural rules and norms. It's only concerned with your survival. And when it hears I CAN'T, it concludes that you've decided you can't because your, in this case, teeth are too weak.
You can apply this same logic to all muscles, bones, connective tissue, etc. and the zillions of afflictions that people have with them. This is, by far, the largest category of conflicts people suffer -> SELF-DEVALUATION.
If you're with me thus far, here's what happens next. The process employed by the psyche is basically identical to lifting weights to make your muscles stronger, or even breaking a bone. In both cases, when the muscles are deliberately torn apart, or the bone is accidentally broken, your psyche always responds by building the muscle or bone stronger so as to help you survive a similar experience in the future.
And this is what's happening with your teeth. Your psyche hears I CAN"T BITE, and goes to work with breaking down your dentin or enamel in order to build it back stronger so that you will feel like you can bite when it completes the process.
This self-devaluation category is the hardest for people to understand because you don't see the benefit of it until the whole conflict and healing process is completed.
So it's likely that you go in and out of your bite conflict, with whomever it is associated with. The bacteria enter the mix AFTER you have resolved your conflict and they go about building stronger dentin/enamel for you. If there are no bacteria but increasing pain and cavities, your bite conflict is active and not yet resolved.
The whole sugar, brushing, flossing story is complete nonsense. I brush maybe once a week, never floss, and eat probably 10x the amount of sugar anybody I know my age, and haven't been to a dentist in over 20 years - no cavities, no dental issues. I realize you won't likely come around to the no brushing/flossing idea any time soon. But I'd recommend you consider it in the short term if you're experiencing pain in your teeth. You're scrubbing away the bacteria that are trying to make your teeth stronger/better. After they pain goes away, you can resume your brushing routine.
The hardest part of course, is figuring out who your foe is, and if you can find a way to let them know your displeasure with this person without suffering a greater loss, like losing a job. Most people I've worked with that have bite conflicts have them with their boss or a co-worker. A few with their spouses.
A little creative thinking can help you come up with a reasonable strategy to work out your issue. Sometimes, just a brief moment of tempered brutal honesty is all it takes -> "Hey boss, I don't like the way you treat me under these circumstances....can we find a more amicable way to work this out"?
And yes, I do recall your saga with your employer and the jab back in 2021 that you so elegantly came out ahead on with your common law approach!
What's the net-net? There's no such thing as "bad bacteria". They're always working to benefit you. That some people die and become overwhelmed with pneumonia or sepsis is because they are already in a tremendously weakened state to begin with and can no longer handle the repair/restoration work being performed by the bacteria. Typically these are the more elderly and/or those with multiple co-morbidities. In these cases, a stiff round of anti-biotics can actually save the person in the short run, but they are left in a greatly weakened state forevermore, as the bacteria were not able to complete their restorative work, typically in the lungs.
You can read more here if interested: https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/teeth.html#Enamel_CA
Good luck!
Thanks for the quick reply buddy! It's only in reading you of late that I've had to consider the notion of the psyche affecting one's health. Of course the idea that your outlook affect how you feel has been around forever, probably with good reason. I'll check the link.
And as you alluded, my covid mandate battle certainly had me feeling powerless at many points, and at war with almost the entire office/company. I definitely wanted to bite someone.
This is my thought too, but it's good to see it in black and white with regard to the category I'm thinking about. Thanks for your thoughts and pointers Morpheus.
Any time Corrbrick. Happy you're willing to contemplate these most radical ideas!